If you have combined vSphere 5.0 with XIV, then you may want to try out the new IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness). You can download the installation instructions, the release notes and the current version of...

I always laugh when people say to me: I wouldn't know what to blog about! When you work in pre-sales support, you constantly get asked questions and each one of them could be the subject of a new blog post. Right now the most common question I am getting...

Have you ever noticed that sometimes two movies come out that seem eerily similar to each other, released by different studios within months or weeks of each other? My sister used to review film scripts for a living, she would read ten of them and have to...

The IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter version 2.5.1 is now available for download and install. This version supports XIV, SVC and Storwize V7000 as per the versions on the following table (the big change being support for version 6.2):...

If you store your VMware bits on external SAN or NAS-based disk storage systems, this post is for you. The subject of the post, VM Volumes , is a potential storage management game changer!
Fellow blogger Stephen Foskett mentioned VM Volumes in his [...

Why PowerVC? Why yet another virtualization management offering? Well, the answer is easy. When more than 70% of IT budgets are spent on operations and maintenance, there are no enough efforts to reduce this cost that limits innovation to IT departments around...

Last week IBM released Version 2 of the management plug-in for VMware vCenter. The main benefit of Version 1 (the previous release) was that it allowed you to map your datastores to XIV volumes (i.e. which XIV volume equates to which VMware datastore). ...

I found on the Manual, for the version 7.2 FP2, that is recommended to have the agent on the same system as the vCenter "as long as it has sufficient capacity to do so" but I don't find any information about the CPU (type, number of cores, etc..)...

As they say "Deploy enterprise apps at the speed of a startup". Business needs, market trends, and customer demands are forcing IT teams to deploy applications at a rapid rate. The frequency of the deployments can invoke human errors,...

Service Health for IBM SmartCloud Provisioning has officially GA'ed and is now available on IBM Integrated Service Management Library ( ISML ). Service Health provides pre - built integrations between IBM SmartCloud Provisioning and IBM SmartCloud Monitoring...

VMware vSphere 5.0 brought in a considerable number of storage related improvements. One of these is VASA, which stands for VMware APIs for Storage Awareness - in which VMware yet again manages to place an acronym (API) inside an acronym (someone needs to...

I wanted to let everyone know that a Trial Virtual Machine is available for the SmartCloud Monitoring version 7.2 FP1 product. The Trial provides a 90 day trial of the software to monitor your virtualized environment and includes the Capacity...

This is my first blog entry. I wanted to document the challenges and the solutions that I figure out for the challenge. I wanted to have a small foot print of linux on my laptop for safe browsing. I observed that browsing is one of the major reason for...

Am I dreaming? On his Storagezilla blog, fellow blogger Mark Twomey (EMC) brags about EMC's standard benchmark results, in his post titled [ Love Life. Love CIFS. ]. Here is my take:
A Full 180 degree reversal
For the past several years, EMC...

There has been much said about the VMware certification process, why isn't SVC fully supported etc; particularly in comments on my blog. Today IBM and VMware jointly announced full certification of SVC 4.2.0 with VMWare ESX 3.0.2. Read the full press release...

New application monitoring solution from IBM
As IT infrastructures evolve, we are seeing a rapid shift towards cloud environments. This is creating the need for companies to look at different approaches for monitoring...

Analysis of a completely overloaded SVC See the complete Story here Customer Use Case: Analysis of a completely overloaded system I
added this document because I have never seen such results before. The
Storage has real performance Issues and it is easy...

I just found this vmware knowledge base article in the web
Slow performance during Storage vMotion, Clone, and Snapshot consolidation operations in various storage systems (2007723)
I think one of the solutions to this problem can be found...

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I recently listed to a great Podcast on VAAI from Greg Knierieman over at the Storage Monkeys website. You can find the podcast here (the whole site is well worth a visit). He was talking with Marc Farley (his co-host, from 3PAR), Chad Sakac (from EMC) and...

Monday morning of the [ Oracle OpenWorld 2011 ] conference had Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC, present the keynote. Joe indicated that I.T. stands for "Industry in Transition". He had a chart that showed the history of IT, from the mainframe and mini-computer, to the...

May 4, 2009 - Today at Impact 2009 , IBM unveiled WebSphere Cloudburst, a new hardware appliance, and BPM BlueWorks, a public cloud-based tool. These new products allow customers to seamlessly extend their investment in SOA into a cloud services...

We are excited to announce release of IBM XIV SRA 2.1.0 that is compatible with VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0. Release Highlights: Support for VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0.1 (and 5.0.0) Support for XIV GEN2 (microcode 10.2.X) and for XIV GEN3...